X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5ecdee5991aa4c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Aesop Subject: Re: REQ: a dork! Date: 1997/10/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 281213140 Sender: news@iglou.com (News) References: <34439312.715F@total.net> <344411D2.64A8@oldstreet.agw.bt.co.uk> <34467A2B.3DBE@oldstreet.agw.bt.co.uk> X-Nntp-Posting-User: erasmus X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iglou2 X-Sender: erasmus@iglou2 Organization: IgLou Internet Services (1-800-436-4456) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, peter cliffe wrote: ->Well, I live near Liverpool, but have heard this all over the UK. For those of you outside of the U.S., in American English -- especially nowadays in the computer age -- the term "dork" is probably most commonly understood as a synonym for "nerd," which means an unathletic, indoor couch-potato, four-eyed (i.e., wears glasses), intellectually-inclined, "pointy-headed" computer expert who plays chess or video games on the computer, is some- where between five and 55 years old, who gets his jollies out of hacking into the computers of the Pentagon or the NSA (No Such Agency, as columnist Bill Safire calls it), and whose social life consists of posting messages here in Cyberspace. Another term is "geek." Perhaps "nerd" is what the original poster meant when he used the term "dork." Let's hope so! Now, hopefully, the bloody "dork" business can be laid to rest once and for all. (Oops! Sorry! That's another instance where the meaning of a word is different in American English than in British English. In America the word "bloody" has no special significance and isn't a swear-word as it is in England.) And that seems to provide a segue for me to throw a bridge across these linguistic waters. I've taken the liberty of making a few tiny changes in Joan's wonderful suspension bridge. Here's my version: ^^ ^^ .. .. []. .[] .:[]:`. ^^ .':[]:. .: :[]: :`. .': :[]: :. .: : :[]: : :`. .': : :[]: : :. .: : : :[]: : : :`:-._ _,-:': : : :[]: : : :. -.-:-:-:-:-:[]:-:-:-:-:-:-:=.=.=.=.=.=.=:-:-:-:-:-:-:[]:-:-:-:-:-.- _:_:_:_:_:_:[]:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:[]:_:_:_:_:_:_ !!!!!!!!!!!![]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![]!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^[]^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^[]^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [] [] [] [] [] [] ~~^-~^_~^~/ \~^-~^~_~^-~_^~-^~_^~~-^~_~^~-~_~-^~_^/ \~^-~_~^-~~- ~ _~~- ~^-^~-^~~- ^~_^-^~~_ -~^_ -~_-~~^- _~~_~-^_ ~^-^~~-_^-~ ~^ ~ ^- _~~_- ~~ _ ~ ^~ - ~~^ _ - ^~- ~ _ ~~^ - ~_ - ~^_~ ~- ^_ ~^ - ^~ _ - ~^~ _ _~^~- _ ~~^ - _ ~ - _ ~~^ - ~^ -_JGS-dm_ ~ _ - _ ~^~- _~ -_ ~- _ ~^ _ - ~ ^- ~^~ - _ ^ - ~~~ _ - _ ~-^ ~ __- ~_ - ~ ~^_- ~ ~- ^~ - ~^ - ~ ^~ - ~~ ^~ - ~ Coming in future installments: Trusses! Cantilevers! Arches! >>>----------------------------------------------<<< >>> david moeser -- erasmus att iglou dott com <<< >>> Censornati, Ohio - USA <<< >>>----------------------------------------------<<< * "DSFA" = Doesn't Stand For Anything! *